Binder-reel attachment.



W. E. DELMAGE.

BINDER REEL ATTACHMENT APPLICATION FILED JULY 25, 1913.

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W. E. DELMAGE.

BINDER REEL ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION nun) JULY 25, 1913.

1,118,398, Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

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BINDER-REEL ATTACHMENT.

Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented Nov. 24;, 1914.

Application filed July 25, 1913. Serial No. 781,105.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM EDWARD Dnmmeu, of the town of Minnedosa, in the Province of Manitoba, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Binder-Reel Attachments, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to an improvement in attachments to binder reels and the object of the invention is to provide a device which can be applied. on the usual binder and which will pick up blown or knocked down grain and hold it to the knife of the binder.

With the above obiect in view the invention consists essentially in a reel fitted with rotatably mounted spring controlled tubes or shafts instead of the usual reel bars. said tubes being provided with projecting forks and carrying arms designed to engage with! an adjustable trip bar supplied at the inner side of the reel, the parts being arranged and constructed as hereinafter more particularly described and later pointed out in the appended claim.

Figure 1 represents a front view of a portion of a binder showing areel equipped with my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side view of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detailed sectional view through one of the reel bars, the section being taken in the plane denoted by the line X-X Fig. 1 and looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.

In the drawings like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each It might be here explained that considerable ditiiculty is at present experienced in harvesting with the usual binder on account of the grain being blown or knocked down by wind, rain or sleet. In such instances the reel as at present supplied ona binder will not pick up the knocked down grain but i 9 represents the reel shaft rotatably mounted in the bracket 10 slidably mounted on the standard (5. The inner end of the reel shaft is supplied with a bevel wheel 11 which meshes with a pinion 12 slidably mounted on the upright square shaft 13 which has the lower end thereof connected by a universal joint 1% t0 the driving spindle 15 carried by the supporting piece 8. The reelshaft carries pairs of equal length radiating bars 16 and 17 as is customary.

The above parts are of ordinary, construction and form no part of my invention and for this reason they have not been shown or described in detail.

My invention comprises the parts now described, which parts can be readily applied to any of the present forms of binders.

.18 are tubular shafts or pipes rotatably mounted as indicated at 19 and 20 on the outer ends of the pairs of bars 16 and 17. These tubes are substituted for the present permanent flat bars of the ordinary reel. Each tube carries a number of projecting forks or prongs 21 the purpose of which will be later explained.

22 are spiral springs enveloping portions of the tubes and having theirouter ends tied to the tubes and their inner ends tied to the bars 16. These springs tend to hold the tubes in fixed normal positions and are designed to return the tubes to these normal positions upon the tubes being turned and released as later described.

23 represents trip arms permanently secured to the inner ends of the tubes 18. The springs hold these arms normally at a definite angle indicated at A (see Fig. 2) in advance of the bars 16.

2 1 is a bar connected by adjustingbolts 25 to short bars 26 and 27 permanently secured to the bracket 10. This trip bar inclines downwardly and forwardly and is arranged to engage successively withthe inner ends of the arms 93 when the reel is turned inthe usual way by the operation of the square shaft 13.

It will be seen if reference be made particularlyto Fig. 2 that as the reel turns the arms 23 engage successively with the bar 24 and turn the forks 21 gradually downwardly so that they will gradually pick up and reap in any grain which has been knocked down. The forks will hold this grain until the same is cut by the knife as the arm controlling any partieular tube is not released from the bar 24 until the forks have passed the knife. After any arm passes the bar it flipsoif and the spring on. the tube returns the fork to the original position.

Although I have shown a definite construction for controlling the position of the forks I do not wish to be limited to that shown as various other mechanical arrangements might be readily suggested which would operate just as effectively to time and turn the tubes at the proper instant.

It is here to be remembered that the ordinary reel is adjustable, this being accomplished by advancing or withdrawing the standard 6. The means for doing this has not been shown'in the drawingsas it forms no part of this invention. This'adjustment of the reel however is referred to as by adjusting this standard one advances the forks in respect to the knife and this allows the device with my attachment to work effectively in grain which is badly knocked down.

What I claim as my invention is:

' lhe combination with a rotatable binder Copies of this patent may be obtained for fiv'e reel presenting the usual radiating bars and a bracket supporting the reel, of shafts rotatably mounted in the extending ends of the bars, spring means connected at one end to said shafts and at the other end to said radiating bars, said means yieldingly holding the shafts normally against rotation, a plurality of suitably spaced forks extending from each of the shafts, a trip arm'secured to the inner end of each shaft, a pair of downwardly and forwardly inclined short bars secured to the reel bracket and an ad justable U-shaped trip bar secured to said short arms, said U-shaped bar being arranged to engage with and successively trip the extending ends of the arms during the rotation of the reel, asand for the purpose specified.

Signed at Minnedosa this 22nd day of April, 1913.

WILLIAM EDWARD DELMAGE.

In the presence of- HEBERT J. BATHO, CHAS. DELMAGE.

cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

